George Edward Hughes

George Edward Hughes ( born June 8, 1918 in Waterford, Northern Ireland, † March 4, 1994 in Wellington, New Zealand) was a British philosopher and logician with a focus on modal logic and medieval philosophy. He was with the historian Beryl Hughes ( * 1920 ) who married as he was a lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand for many years and the local Women's Studies co-founded. The two have five children.

Life

Hughes was born in 1918 in Waterford, Ireland. As a result of the conflict in Northern Ireland, however, the English Hughes family moved in the early 20s of the 20th century to Scotland. Hughes completed a degree in Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Glasgow from using top grade. After a year as a post- graduate at the University of Cambridge, he was an assistant in Glasgow - Lecturer, joined the Imagine as a lecturer at the University College of South Wales in Cardiff, and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. Hughes was ordained in 1950 in Bangor priest of the Anglican Scottish Episcopal Church, but without having completed a theological training, as necessary to find people who could hold services in both English and Welsh language. However, Hughes is said to have learned the Welsh liturgy by heart to be able to understand without knowing the language. In 1951 he was appointed to the Chair of Philosophy at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he remained until his retirement in 1984. He died in Wellington on 4 March 1994.

Work

In Hughes ' ​​work is clearly influenced by John Wisdom and Ludwig Wittgenstein noticeable that he had heard both in Cambridge; Moreover, by John Langshaw Austin, the leading representative of the philosophy of natural language and Arthur Norman Prior, whom he met in New Zealand.

Hughes 's early work concerned with ethics and philosophy of religion, but are mainly known his work on modal logic, which he co-authored with his former student and later colleague Max Cresswell. An Introduction to Modal Logic, which both published in 1968, the first modern textbook was in this area and has been translated into numerous languages ​​. Of particular importance is the work, because it brought a whole generation of researchers and students, the model-theoretic semantics of Saul Kripke detail that should be the standard theory for the formal semantics of natural and formal languages ​​.

Hughes ' ​​second focus was the logic of the Middle Ages, in particular the handling of comments and English translations of the Latin works of Jean Buridan and Paul Venetus.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • The Elements of Formal Logic, with DG Londey, Methuen 1965.
  • An Introduction to Modal Logic, with MJ Cresswell, Methuen 1968 dt introduction to modal logic, Berlin, New York:. De Gruyter 1978, ISBN 3-11-004609-1
  • John Buridan on Self - Reference: Chapter Eight of Buridan 's ' Sophismata ', with a Translation, an Introduction, and a Philosophical Commentary, Cambridge University Press, 1982.
  • A Companion to Modal Logic, with MJ Cresswell, Methuen 1984.
  • Paul of Venice. Logica magna, Part II, Fascicule 4, capitula De Conditionali et De rationalization. Edited and translated by Hughes in the ReiheThe British Academy Classical and Medieval Logic Texts, VI. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990.
  • A New Introduction to Modal Logic, with MJ Cresswell, Routledge, 1996.

Papers

  • Motives and Duty, by George E. Hughes. Mind, New Series, Vol 53, No. 212 (Oct., 1944), pp. 314-331.
  • An Examination of the Argument from Theology to Ethics, by George E. Hughes. Philosophy, Vol 22, No. 81 (Apr., 1947), pp. 3-24.
  • The Ethical Relevance of Consequences, by George E. Hughes. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol 48, (1947 - 1948), pp. 59-74.
  • Has God's Existence Been Disproved: A Reply to Professor JN Findlay, by George E. Hughes. Mind, New Series, Vol 58, No. 229 (Jan., 1949), pp. 67-74.
  • Symposium: Is There Knowledge by Acquaintance, by HLA Hart, GE Hughes, and JN Findlay. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol 23, Politics, Psychology and Art, (1949 ), pp. 69-128.
  • Moral Condemnation, by G. E. Hughes. In Essays in Moral Philosophy, edited by AI Report, University of Washington Press, 1958, pp. 108-134.
  • Plantinga on the Rationality of God 's Existence, by GE Hughes. The Philosophical Review, Vol 79, No. 2, (Apr., 1970), pp. 246-252.
  • Omnitemporal Logic and Converging Time, by GE Hughes and MJ Cresswell. Theoria, 41 (1975 ), no 1, 11-34.
  • Modal Systems With No minimum Proper Extensions, by GE Hughes. Reports on Mathematical Logic, no. 6 (1976 ), pp. 93-98.
  • Omnitemporal Nodal Logic and Time, by George E. Hughes. Reports on Mathematical Logic, no. 8 (1977 ), pp. 41-61.
  • Equivalence Relations and S5, by G. E. Hughes. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 21 (1980 ), no 3, pp. 577-584.
  • Some Strong Omnitemporal Logics, by G. E. Hughes. Synthesis, 53 (1982 ), no 1, pp.. 19-42.
  • The Modal Logic of John Buridan, by G. E. Hughes. In Atti del Convegno internazionale di storia della logica: la teoria delle modalità, ed G. Corsi, C. Mangione, and M. Mugnani, CLUEB, Bologna, 1989, pp. 93-111.
  • Every World Can See a Reflexive World, by GE Hughes. Studia Logica, 49 (1990 ), no 2, 175-181.

Swell

  • Obituary: George Hughes. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol 72, No. 4; December 1994, page 548
  • Vaughan Pratt R. (1980). Application of modal logic to programming. Studia Logica, Vol 39, pages 257-274.
  • Philosopher ( 20th century)
  • Logician
  • Northern Irishman
  • Born in 1918
  • Died in 1994
  • Man
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